William W. Leith v. Oil Transport Company, Inc., and American Marine Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
321 F.2d 591 · 1963
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1987 · most notably Pure Oil Company v. Suarez (1966), 257 F. Supp. 219 - Japan Gas Lighter Association v. Ronson Corp. (1966)
13 federal appellate · 4 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Romero v. International Terminal Operating Co. · Baltimore Co v. Phillips · Panama Co v. Johnson · Fourco Glass Company v. Transmirra Products Corporation · Fitzgerald v. United States Lines Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Jurisdiction in such actions shall, be under the court of the district in which the defendant employer resides or in which his principal office is located.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It did not arise there; the plaintiff does not live there; the defendants are not incorporated there and do not maintain a place of business there.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.